College football’s most notorious tight end wants to show her that everything’s bigger in Texas.CassieI can’t stand jocks. And I don’t know the first thing about football.So it’s just my luck that the tutoring job I take to get me through graduate school involves making sure a dumb jock passes his classes.Now, I’m babysitting Colton King, a spoiled arrogant player who’s as famous for his bedroom antics as he is for his football skills.The tight end with the filthy mouth tells me he’ll show me that everything’s bigger in Texas.And heaven help me, I just might be considering it.* * *ColtonMy life is one big party, and that’s never going to change.Not even if my coach finds me a nerdy tutor he thinks will keep me in line.Miss Goody Two Shoes is uptight, high-strung, and unimpressed by the fact that I’m a campus legend.Even worse, the hot little tutor is as pure as the driven snow.Debauching her and making her mine is the ultimate challenge. And I always rise to the occasion.**

Six years ago, Dewayne Falco\'s life changed. He lost someone he never expected to lose. Resigned to punish himself for something he felt he could have prevented, he goes through life without getting too close to anyone.What he didn\'t expect was for the girl across the street to move back home and remind him of what they both lost: Dewayne\'s younger brother Dustin. However, when a miniature version of Dustin opens the door to greet him, Dewayne realizes he might not have lost everything after all.Sienna Roy loved Dustin Falco most of her life. He was the boy next door, the high school basketball star and her best friend. But when his life was cut short, she realized he left a part of himself behind.Now, she\'s back in Sea Breeze, thankful to have a home for her and Dustin\'s son, but not sure if she can ever forgive the people across the street who abandoned her when she needed them the most — The Falcos.Betrayal, lies, and forbidden attraction might end Dewayne and Sienna\'s story before it\'s even begun.

I was happy in my small town. In my life as a single, thirty-two year old woman. I had a good job, wonderful friends, my independence. I also hadn't got laid in three years. Hadn't been on a date in two. Had stopped counting calories and wearing makeup... a while ago. Then Brett Jacobs waltzed in. Caressed my thigh, dug rough fingers into my hair, lowered his soft mouth to my skin, took sexual control of my mind and stirred it all around with what he packed in his pants. He flipped my quiet life upside down and crawled into a place in my heart I thought was dead. The issue is his secret. The issue is her. The issue is that I don't even know she exists, and he thinks she's dead. The issue is that shit is about to hit the fan and I can't hold on to him tight enough.

Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son - 'Just stay quiet and all safe. ' Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range; but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. For Tia and Mike Baye, the question they must answer is this: when it comes to your kids, is it possible to know too much?

A brand new detective series with a supernatural twist – Ghostbusters meets Line of Duty in your next obsession! 'Detective fiction with a refreshing difference – tense and twisted' Susi Holliday 'A brilliant, clever murder mystery' Jane Casey Even in your dreams you're not safe... The nightmare is only just beginning... When DC Rose Gifford is called to investigate the death of a young woman suffocated in her bed, she can't shake the feeling that there's more to the crime than meets the eye. It looks like a straightforward crime scene – but the police can't find the killer. Enter DS Moony – an eccentric older detective who runs UCIT, a secret department of the Met set up to solve supernatural crimes. Moony wants Rose to help her out – but Rose doesn't believe in any of that. Does she? As the killer prepares to strike again, Rose must pick a side – before a second woman dies. Twisty, original and compelling, SLEEP TIGHT is perfect for fans of Alex North and Cara Hunter. PRAISE FOR...

A woman on the run finds refuge in a motel at the edge of the woods, with plenty of vacancies. Check in for the night with *New York Times* bestselling author Lisa Unger. Eve has a fake ID, a .38, and a violent lover receding in the rearview mirror. He’ll never find her at the isolated motel, and its kindly manager is happy to ease her fears. But if Eve is the only guest, whom does she keep hearing on the other side of the wall? Eve won’t get a good night’s rest until she finds out. *Lisa Unger’s* The Sleep Tight Motel *is part of *Dark Corners*, a collection of seven heart-stopping short stories by bestselling authors who give you so many new reasons to be afraid. Each story can be read in a single sitting. Or, if you have the nerve, you can listen all by yourself in the dark.* ** ### About the Author Lisa Unger is a *New York Times* bestselling author whose books have been published in twenty-six languages worldwide and whose essays have appeared in the *New York Times*, *Wall Street Journal*, and NPR. Unger lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida with her husband, daughter, and labradoodle.

When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of murderers – by their smug belief that they could kill without leaving a trace. There was always a trace, Gurney believed. Except what if one day there wasn’t? Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying once again to adjust to his country house’s bucolic rhythms when he receives a call about a case so seductively bewildering that the thought of not looking into it seems unimaginable—even if his beloved wife, Madeleine, would rather he do anything but. The facts of what has occurred are horrible: a blushing bride, newly wed to an eminent psychiatrist and just minutes from hearing her congratulatory toast, is found decapitated, her head apparently severed by a machete. Though police investigators believe that a Mexican gardener killed the young woman in a fit of jealous fury, the victim’s mother—a chilly high-society beauty—is having none of it. Reluctantly drawn in, Dave is quickly buffeted by a series of revelations that transform the bizarrely monstrous into the monstrously bizarre.   Underneath it all may exist one of the darkest criminal schemes imaginable. And as Gurney begins deciphering its grotesque outlines, some of his most cherished assumptions about himself are challenged, causing him to stare into an abyss so deep that it threatens to swallow not just him but Madeleine, too. Desperate to protect Madeleine and bring an end to the madness, Gurney ultimately discovers that the killer has left a trace after all. Unfortunately, the revelation may come too late to save his own life. With Shut Your Eyes Tight, John Verdon delivers on the promise of his internationally bestselling debut, Think of a Number, creating a portrait of evil let loose across generations that is as rife with moments of touching humanity as it is with spellbinding images of perversity.

Four years ago, Lara Spellmeyer left her small-town life in Perry, Oklahoma, to pursue her dream of starting a cat sweater business. After being swept up in online fame and success, Lara is suddenly back home, dealing with her grandmother’s poor health and potentially career-ending negative press. The only bright spots are Tight Knit, the knitting circle she starts with her friends, and Kerry, the charming young woman her best friend sets her up with. When Chief Editor Paige Daley asks Lara to appear in her local paper’s Hometown Heroes series, it just might restore Lara’s image to its former glory. But working with Paige on the story is a battle between Lara’s loyalty to her community and a reminder of the suffocating small-town mentality she grew up with. It doesn’t help that Paige is her ex, completely maddening, and can’t see eye to eye with Lara on anything. How could this possibly end well? A charming, second-chance lesbian romance about finding love in all the old places.

"I'm leaving."Dad's words come as a complete shock to Essie. How can he just walk out on her and the family, especially when Mom is pregnant?Essie keeps her dad's leaving a secret. Then Essie's classmate, Chris Crow, disappears, and everyone finds out he's been kidnapped. Is Chris okay? Is Dad ever coming back? Essie is left to wonder if people really have any control over what happens in their lives.Finally, after a startling incident with a family friend, Essie finds the strength to hold on tight to all that she has left -- and in the process realizes that the bonds of love and family do hold a person together.Inspired by true events, Hold Me Tight is a moving and powerful novel. An author's note provides further information about kidnapping and the Amber Plan programs that are in use today to help communities find abducted children.

*A hard body. A dangerous past. Meet Mr. February.* Reality-TV star and reformed bad boy Spencer Dean doesn’t trust women. Not after his fiancée, Brooke, left him at the altar five years ago, breaking his heart and hardening his soul. Now, Brooke is close to a deal for her own show that will launch with the remodel of a popular Austin bar. The problem? The network insists that Spencer step in as her partner. He’s tried to forget her—but he can’t deny that he still wants her. More than that, he wants to punish her. And so he agrees, but only on terms that are provocative, demanding, and wildly sensual. It’s the perfect set-up for extracting revenge. But he doesn’t expect to fall for Brooke all over again… Revenge never looked so hot. ***Hold On Tight* is part of a binge read series by *New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly,* and #1 International bestselling author of the million copy Stark series, J. Kenner. Each novel in the series is a STANDALONE romance with a guaranteed HEA! But even so, you won’t want to miss any in the series. Because then you can answer the question… ** *Who’s Your Man of the Month?* ** When a group of fiercely determined friends realize their beloved hang-out is in danger of closing, they take matters into their own hands to bring back customers lost to a competing bar. Fighting fire with a heat of their own, they double down with the broad shoulders, six-pack abs, and bare chests of dozens of hot, local guys who they cajole, prod, and coerce into auditioning for a Man of the Month calendar. But it’s not just the fate of the bar that’s at stake. Because as things heat up, each of the men meets his match in this sexy, flirty, and compelling binge-read romance series of twelve novels releasing every other week from *New York Times* bestselling author J. Kenner. “With each novel featuring a favorite romance trope—beauty and the beast, billionaire bad boys, friends to lovers, second chance romance, secret baby, and more—this series hits the heart and soul of romance.” — *New York Times* bestselling author Carly Phillips Complete Title List: Down On Me Hold On Tight Need You Now Start Me Up Get It On In Your Eyes Turn Me On Shake It Up All Night Long In Too Deep Light My Fire Walk The Line And don’t miss *Bar Bites: A Man of the Month Cookbook* by J. Kenner and Suzanne M. Johnson, featuring recipes, slices of life, and all new scenes and short stories!

FLEUR They never saw me, no matter how much I wanted them to. After growing up around the Guidice brothers, I fell in love with them, but they only saw me as their sister’s best friend. Just like the brothers of the DSMC have only seen me as the club princess. I’m tired of not being seen. I found a place to play and find myself, but I keep it a secret because the overbearing men in my life don’t need to know. When the Guidice brothers find out, they track me down and give me a night I’ll never forget. They cinch me up in corsets and ribbons, bringing back all the feelings I buried, but it doesn’t change anything. They still don’t see me. Everything goes wrong when a man I played with does see me, except only what he wants to see. I become his obsession. Leo, Gio, and Rocco come to my rescue, but is it because they feel obligated? When everything comes crashing down around me, who will still be at my side? LEONARDO I can’t lose focus on the family because the threats to the Guidice family are real and need to be neutralized. Except, for the first time, I’m distracted by Fleur. It’s like I’m seeing her for the first time. I’m not the only one distracted by her either. Finding out she’s so much more than my brothers and I ever realized leads to a night of indulgence, but then what will happen? GIOVANNI Fleur has been hard not to notice, but she’s always been untouchable. Until she isn’t and we find out there is so much more to her than we ever thought. After giving into temptation, one night with her will never be enough. As danger looms, she’ll have to trust me and my brothers, even though we haven’t earned it. But we will. Then we’ll claim her as our own because no one touches what is ours. ROCCO I’m used to threats and danger, it comes with the territory as a Guidice. Having those things touch Fleur is unacceptable. I thought, inevitably, we would be the ones bringing danger to her doorstep, but it’s her light instead. I’ll walk through fire for her with my brothers at my side. Now that we’ve had a taste of her and dressed her up as our little doll, there’s no going back. The blood we shed to neutralize the threat to our woman is a testament to our devotion. We’re never letting her go. **18+. If you like alpha heroes and an insta-love story that is sweet and spicy but isn’t necessarily simple, then this is for you. This story will have high heat with multiple love interests for the heroine. No cheating with a guaranteed HEA. This book has ties to my Denver Family book but does not contain any characters from those storylines. This book is part of the Guidice Crime Family books and Devil’s Saints MC series but can be read as a standalone. Meet Fleur and the Guidice brothers in Flowers and Moonlight (Mardi Gras Menage Series) and Room Five: What You Can’t See (Club Sin: New Orleans Session 1).** You’ve explored Club Sin: New York and Club Sin: Chicago, now visit Club Sin: New Orleans for two more play sessions. Fantasies are meant to come true and the men of Club Sin: New Orleans will see to your every kinky desire. This November is the second play session of the year with ten of your favorite steamy romance authors. We’ll take you inside Club Sin: New Orleans, a forbidden place where you’ll find love and pleasure with multiple hot men in these Reverse Harem novellas. Can you handle the heat? Ten rooms, ten fantasies…Which door will you step through?

When mindreaders run the world, being a jacker makes you a weapon. Zeph can break open the toughest minds—or lock the weakest—which only means every Clan leader wants to own him. He did as he was told, kept his head down, and tried to shut out the screams. But when they came after his family, he hugged his kid sister goodbye and ran away to keep them safe. For two years, he's passed as a reader. Then his family disappears, readers start changing into super jackers, and Zeph is forced to return to a city filled with jackers who hate him. To find his family, he must trick a mindware CEO into helping him, avoid a girl who knows him too well, and spy on the most powerful jacker in the state. All without dying or revealing his abilities—or being caught in the firestorm of hate between jackers and readers that's threatening to pull the world apart. The bestselling Mindjack Series continues with an all new...

Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries to navigate life as a single dad by day. Luckily, his neighbor is happy to babysit while he works late nights. She's great with little Kate, beautiful, kind ... and lately he's found himself smiling whenever he thinks about her.Dani Brown also knows what it's like to lose a spouse and raise a child on her own. Cleaning houses during the day, and taking online classes at night, she dreams of running her own preschool someday. And, since her fourteen-year-old son Jeremy's baseball team requires a lot of money, she's thrilled to earn some extra cash by watching her handsome neighbor's adorable little girl. But even with two jobs, she's having trouble making ends meet.When Jackson sees Dani...

New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot" After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits. His long list of enemies includes an off point hit man, a personal injury lawyer of billboard fame, a notoriously irritating TV journalist, and a fumbling plastic surgeon.Now, if he wants to keep fishing into his golden years, Stranahan has no choice but to come out of retirement to close this one last case...

The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on the side, was also recording sessions in what became the famous Stax Studios-all while still in high school. Not long after, he would form the genre-defining group Booker T. and the MGs, whose recordings went on to sell millions of copies, win a place in Rolling Stone's list of top 500 songs of all time, and help forge collaborations with some of the era's most influential artists, including Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam & Dave. Nearly five decades later, Jones's influence continues to help define the music industry, but only now is he ready to tell his remarkable life story. Time is Tight is the deeply moving account of how Jones balanced the brutality of the segregationist South with the loving support of his family and community, all while transforming a burgeoning studio into a musical mecca. Culminating with a definitive account into the inner workings of the Stax label, as well as a fascinating portrait of working with many of the era's most legendary performers-Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Tom Jones, among them-this extraordinary memoir promises to become a landmark moment in the history of Southern Soul.

The last thing I want in my life is something complicated. Everett McCabe is very complicated.It started with a noise in my yard late at night. I thought it was nothing. Then I noticed the boot print near my porch. There's someone watching me, stalking me, and my small town police can't seem to do anything to protect me. This is my home, but I'm terrified.My friend's older brother is the last person I expected to step in and pick up where the police left off. After all, I used to tease Rett.  Call him a Boy Scout. A prim and proper do-gooder with a stick up his butt.I had no idea what was lurking under his buttoned-up exterior.Something protective. Something possessive. Something… dominant.I'm scared. But I'm safe in his arms. I'm confused. But his kisses make everything clear. I'm falling apart. But his...

Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world. In HOLD ME TIGHT, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.

Rucker McClure had drowned beer and chased women everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but he couldn't resist heading straight for Mount Pleasant, Alabama, when the town's mayor, ex-Miss Georgia Dinah Sheridan, sent him a baby possum in retaliation for a column that savaged their annual Possum Days celebration! Not a bit subtle where seduction was concerned, Rucker did his best to rough up Dinah's smooth edges, mesmerizing her with burning caresses and a voice that drawled steamy promises. "Keep your heart open and lips puckered," he warned her when he left town, but when he returned and began unraveling her mystery, Dinah knew her fate was sealed. If Rucker discovered the scandal that had once cost her everything, she'd lose him--and the life she loved. But if she wouldn't trust him with her secrets, how could he prove he cherished her?

You can hide from your past. But you can't hide from love...Marine veteran Austin Flint knows all about trouble. He fought it in Afghanistan, and now he battles it at home as the head of Six Points Tactical & Security. In his line of work, he can't afford to be distracted by anything…or anyone, and that includes Nina Petrov, his cyber security specialist. She's got a chip on her shoulder, a smart mouth. And a body that just doesn't quit. She's also his employee, which makes her off limits, no matter how badly he wants her.But when her life is threatened by the Russian mafia, he'll do what it takes to protect her, even if that means breaking his code of honor and claiming her as his own.Trouble is, he doesn't know about her past, and what he doesn't know might get them both killed.

I was happy in my small town. In my life as a single, thirty-two year old woman. I had a good job, wonderful friends, my independence. I also hadn't been laid in three years. Hadn't been on a date in two. Had stopped counting calories and wearing makeup... a while ago. Then Brett Jacobs waltzed in. Caressed my thigh, dug rough fingers into my hair, lowered his soft mouth to my skin, took sexual control of my mind and stirred it all around with what he packed in his pants. He flipped my quiet life upside down and crawled into a place in my heart I thought was dead. The issue is his secret. The issue is her. The issue is that I don't even know she exists, and he thinks she's dead. The issue is that shit is about to hit the fan and I can't hold on to him tight enough.

A hotshot consultant hired to streamline Osbourne Corp. meets his match in Pandora Justice—the more she plays hard to get, the more he wants her. They say that like recognizes like, and the day I looked into her deep blues, I met my other half. Pandora Justice took over as head of security at Osbourne Corp. after her father's retirement. Eighty-hour workweeks are normal; being bossed around by handsome outsiders is not. And she doesn't like it. Not even one bit. It's amazing how easily she can lie to herself.  I had to have her. Plain and simple.  The first time Pandora sees Royce in the ring—all tattoos and sinew, covered in sweat—he looks at her like he's just won more than the fight. Like he won her. I won't play games with her. I'll wait, and it will kill me, but I'll do it for her.  Royce's cocky grin with deep dimples makes Pandora melt. Once she wanted to smack that look off his face—now all she wants to do is kiss it. For the rest of her life. The thought of spending the rest of my life with Pandora warms the place in my chest I didn't think was alive. I've put my claim on her—she's the one, and I'm done.

Who would have thought that she’d ever have to thank her brother (and the drunken ogre who didn’t know when to sit down and shut up, of course) for literally dropping her into the arms of the man of her dreams? Not Leah, that’s for sure. But now she’s had to thank Calland a thousand times over for taking her and Chloe with him to the UFC fight that landed her in the arms (and bed) of the tall, tattooed, sexy-as-sin, Ian. Ever since, Leah and Ian have been inseparable; they’re happy and in love. But there’s someone who’s determined to see that happiness end. Victoria has been a pain in Ian’s ass all his life, though a harmless one. Family “friends” since childhood, he’s laughed off her random visits and claims of undying love. Now with Leah in the picture, Victoria has upped the ante and it’s no longer a laughing matter. Victoria may claim to be crazy in love (or just plain crazy), but Ian and Leah, with all the usual suspects at their backs to offer love and support…and lots of laughs along the way… make it known that they’re in it for the long haul and Victoria can’t change that. But Victoria is used to getting what she wants…and what she wants is Ian. And she’s made it clear that she’ll do whatever it takes to have him… Recommended for readers 18+ due to HOT sexual encounters, adult situations, and language. *This is book four of the Skin Deep Series; recommended to read after Skin Deep, book one of the series, Under My Skin, book two of the series, and Skin to Skin, book three of the series.

After a scorching night of sex and sin, two men need to make a decision in their lives. Jeff works nights playing guitar at a strip club. Pete works days as a tour guide. Neither man is happy and both search for fulfillment. Can they find it in each other’s arms?

What happens when strong, possessive men find the women of their dreams. Stay Close: A former Russian mafia soldier is hired to protect a friend’s daughter, but he knows he’ll do more than keep her safe—he’ll make her his. Forever. Hold Tight: A hotshot consultant hired to streamline Osbourne Corp. meets his match in Pandora Justice—the more she plays hard to get, the more he wants her. Don’t Go: CEO Henry Osbourne has only ever desired one woman—the one who got away. She ran from a boy, but a man of power and persuasion now stands in his place. Featuring A Fighting Chance by Shannon Stacey. All work and no play makes Adeline Kendrick a dull girl, so when she heads to a casino resort for a friend’s bachelorette weekend, she’s ready to have a good time. Until she runs into Brendan Quinn, professional fighter and the one who got away—the one her family drove away—and things take a turn for the interesting. Running into his ex won’t shake Brendan. Even if it brings up the old pain of loving her when she was only slumming. Even if she looks really good. In fact, what better way to get over the past than to take advantage of the still-sizzling chemistry running hot between them? He’s there to win an MMA fight, but he won’t say no to a little physical relief of a different kind. But when the weekend is over, Adeline isn’t ready to give up her second chance that easily. Brendan is still the one for her, no matter what her family thinks. Now, if only she can convince him of that…

Sleeping With The EnemyThey hide in mattresses. They wait till you're asleep. They rise in the dead of night to feast on your blood. They can multiply by the hundreds in less than a week. They are one of the most loathsome, hellish species to ever grace God's green earth. Thought to be eradicated decades ago, thanks to global travel they're back. And with them comes a nightmare beyond imagining. Bed bugs. Infected with a plague virus so deadly it makes Ebola look like a summer cold. One bite turns people into homicidal maniacs. Now they're in Chicago. And migrating to all points north, south, east, and west. The rest of the world is already itching. The U.S. government and the CDC are helpless to stop it. Only one man knows what's causing the epidemic. And the powers-that-be want him dead. "A fresh new talent with an amazing ability to astonish." --David Morrell, bestselling author of First Blood

I've lived the fairytale.And the evil queen won.My princess died...and it was my fault.Football was just something I enjoyed, until it became the thing that saved my life.Playing is like breathing, and I can't live without air.Landyn was right: I'm NFL-caliber. I've got ten, maybe fifteen years and then I'll retire. Life is good.Until her.I thought my heart was gone. Flamed into petrified ash with Emily's last breath. Now a green-eyed monster with hair like fire has kindled something inside me.But if she discovers the secret I hold, I could lose the life I've built with football. I've already died once; I don't think I'll survive it again.Is there a fairytale where the prince finds love again? I don't think so...The newest NFL team is full of the hottest and most talented collegiate players of the 2019 graduating class. The women they meet and the lessons they learn will determine if they deserve to be NFL champions. Each novel ends in a happily ever after, but their stories continue through the season. Will the Rhinos be the next Cinderella team and reach the Super Bowl?Get a Rookie today!The Rookies SeriesThe Quarterback (Available for Pre-Order!)The Tight End (Available for Pre-Order!)The Running Back (Available for Pre-Order!)The Kicker (Coming September 2018)The Wide Receiver (Coming October 2018)The Linebacker (Coming November 2018)The Tackle (Coming December 2018)The Coach (Coming January 2019)The Owner (Coming Fall 2018)

Newly arrived in Cooper Station, a small, New England town, Chris Pappas and his wife, Lisa, struggle to join the insular society that views them as outsiders. While Chris sets out to establish himself as a teacher, Lisa enters into a clandestine relationship with Anthony Cooper, a descendent of the town founder. But it is only when the pair run afoul of Doris Palmer—a woman desperate to keep her secret—that they feel the true weight of the collar that constrains Cooper Station's citizens.Although redolent of the same themes as Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's The Tight White Collar did not achieve the same level of success as its predecessors.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

From the award-winning author of There Was an Old Woman comes a riveting tale of domestic noir, infused with old Hollywood folklore and glamour, set in a town rife with egotism and backstabbing and where fame and infamy are often interchangeable.Los Angeles 1986: When Deirdre Unger arrived in Beverly Hills to help her bitter, disappointed father sell his dilapidated house, she discovers his lifeless body floating face down in the swimming pool. At first, Deirdre assumes her father's death was a tragic accident. But the longer she stays in town, the more she suspects that it is merely the third act in a story that has long been in the making.The sudden re-surfacing of Deirdre's childhood best friend Joelen Nichol—daughter of the legendary star Elenor "Bunny" Nichol—seems like more than a coincidence. Back in 1958, Joelen confessed to killing her movie star mother's boyfriend. Deirdre happened to be at the Nichols house the night of the...

Hold Tight, Don't Let Go follows the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After losing the woman who raised them in the tragedy, Magdalie and Nadine must fend for themselves in the aftermath of the quake. The girls are inseparable, making the best of their new circumstances in a refugee camp with an affectionate, lively camaraderie, until Nadine, whose father lives in Miami, sends for her but not Magdalie. As she leaves, Nadine makes a promise she cannot keep: to bring Magdalie to Miami, too. Resourceful Magdalie focuses her efforts on a reunion with Nadine until she realizes her life is in Haiti, and that she must embrace its possibilities for love, friendship, and a future.

A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.

Jonathan and Tabitha are ready to settle down to a nice dessert, but Tabitha would like Jonathan to do a bit of sexual role playing with her. Jonathan plays the role of a door-to-door lion tamer, while Tabitha plays the role of a young, sex-starved, virgin. Tabitha’s character may be a virgin, but she knows what she wants, and she wants it hard, wet, and smeared all over her sweet, innocent face…

In Serena Bell’s heartwarming novel, a young mother and a battle-scarred veteran must decide if they can rekindle the sparks they once shared. Fighting for his country gave Jake Taylor’s life shape and meaning. Now as an injured war hero he struggles to find purpose, until he runs into the gorgeous woman he dated briefly—and disastrously—before being deployed eight years ago. Turns out Jake doesn’t just need to figure out how to be a civilian... he also needs to learn how to be a dad.Eighteen, pregnant, and totally lost, Mira Shipley couldn’t track down the soldier who fathered her child, so she put college on hold and focused on making a good life for her son. Now she’s determined to be something more than Sam’s mom, her parents’ daughter, or Jake’s girl—as hot as she finds her old flame’s take-charge attitude in and out of bed. Soon Mira and Jake realize that their passion didn’t disappear when Sam was conceived—and that instead of running away, sometimes it’s better to hold on tight.

For the sake of a dying client, Brady tracks down a prodigal daughterConcord, Massachusetts, is littered with literary monuments, of which the historic Ames house is only a minor one. But to Susan Ames, nowhere on earth is more important than this colonial residence where Emerson and Thoreau once broke bread with her ancestors. Dying of cancer, Susan knows the house should stay in her family, but the only heir is her daughter, Mary Ellen, a wild child more likely to indulge in cocaine and motorcycles than transcendental poetry. Eleven years ago, she ran off with her college professor, and will need to be located before she can inherit the estate.Finding her falls to Brady Coyne, a good-hearted Boston attorney who knows his way around New England's dark parts. He will soon find that Mary Ellen's story is too tragic even for a great poet to contemplate.

A World War II sailor works in a New York City brothel—for his countryAfter being arrested in a gay brothel in New York during a raid, Seaman Second Class Hank Fayette doesn't understand why his homosexual activities are grounds for imprisonment. The brothel is rumored to be a hangout for Nazi spies and the Navy forces Hank to go undercover as a prostitute. They hope to use clandestine sexuality to retrieve clandestine intelligence. However, after Hank becomes friendly with a black teenager named Juke, nothing seems to go as planned. Hold Tight is a World War II thriller set in the Big Band era, a world where sexuality and race can be equally dangerous.

Alicia Knight Orchid has put together an eclectic collection of stories, featuring strong women reveling in their sexuality, that are darkly edgy, wickedly witty, heartbreakingly poignant...and incredibly erotic.Whether your pleasure is erotica about voyeurism, couples exploring female domination, smoking fetishism, waitresses serving more than food, sadistic serial killers, sultry New Orleans nights, couples reviving their troubled marriages, or librarians without panties...Tight Women in Hard Places has the naughty story for you.

There’s nothing Laura Fleming’s Southern family likes better than a get-together, and cousin Augustus returning from the Army is a perfect reason to gather for a party in Byerly, North Carolina. While Laura and her scholar husband, Richard, are in town, her formidable great-aunt Maggie has an assignment in mind.Carney Alexander was recently found dead under his own table at Tight as a Tick Flea Market, where Aunt Maggie is a regular dealer. She and the other vendors weren’t overly fond of Carney—general opinion is that the man was nosy, ornery, and had a mean streak a mile wide. Why Aunt Maggie is so intent on solving the crime is a mystery in its own right, but Laura can’t let her down.The flea market’s regulars prove as colorful and quirky as the goods they offer, and plenty had reason for wanting to see Carney and his stall shut down permanently. But locating the genuine article among a slew of motives won’t be easy—especially with the killer in the market for another victim.

When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst; this isn’t the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in to investigate this family again, but this time it’s Olivia who has disappeared. All the evidence suggests that she was here, in the family home, that morning. But her car is in the garage, and her purse is in her handbag – on the kitchen table. The police want to issue an appeal, but for some reason every single picture of this family has been removed from albums, from phones, from computers. And then they find the blood…has the past caught up with Olivia? 

He isn't just a man. Lazarus super soldier Jett is the perfect predator. He's faster, stronger, and far deadlier than a normal man—because he isn't normal. Brought back from the dead, Jett is supposed to be little more than a machine. His heart should be ice cold, but it's not. His heart beats fast and hard for the one woman he should never be able to possess, Savannah Jacobs. He's the hero she didn't expect. When Savannah is kidnapped, she doesn't think she'll escape her captors. Then mysterious Jett breaks in and takes out all of the men in the room—the masked men who'd yanked her right off a busy public street—and Jett barely breaks a sweat in the fight. Jett is tall, dark, and as sexy as every sin that Savannah can imagine. When he takes her to safety, desire explodes between them. Savannah falls fast and hard for Jett...then he walks away. But he broke her heart. Jett...

A tween boy from the projects gets all wound up when he's constantly told he needs to be "hard" when he'd rather go with the flow and stay chill.Bryan's mom has always encouraged his quiet, thoughtful nature, but his dad is different. He thinks it's time for the sixth-grader to toughen up. With a quick temper and recently out of jail on probation, he tells Bryan it's better for a man to be feared than to be liked.     Bryan's not really sure about this, and it doesn't seem to even matter when he befriends new kid Omar. At first everything is calm and chill, the way Bryan likes it, as the boys bond over their love of reading comics and drawing superheroes. But things get uncomfortable when it turns out Omar has some risky ideas about how to have fun. Then Bryan's dad gets in a fight and ends up back in jail, and something in Bryan snaps. He starts cutting school, jumping subway turnstiles and going train surfing, with Omar in the...

From Publishers Weekly Women who dye their hair blonde may think twice before heading to the salon after reading Frasier's (Hush) enthralling thriller about a serial killer who plucks the eyes out of his young blonde victims and grafts rose stems onto their fingers-all in an effort to create the perfect woman. Minneapolis FBI agent Mary Cantrell has a personal interest in the latest string of murders taking place in her hometown. The killer may very well be an old high school classmate named Gavin Hitchcock, who was convicted of raping and murdering her best friend and then released after serving nine years in prison. But when the abductions persist even after Gavin is returned to custody, Mary's sister, Gillian, a local cop who's befriended Gavin and believes him to be innocent, goes undercover to trap the real killer. Some vivid autopsy scenes may turn the stomachs of the squeamish, but there's a lot more to this clever intrigue than graphic police procedures. Indeed, one of Frasier's many strengths is her ability create characters and relationships that are as compelling as the mystery itself. From the estranged Cantrell sisters and their broad-minded mother to Mary's handsome partner and the troubled Gavin, Frasier's well-rounded characters will linger with readers long after the killer is caught.

What’s one little spell? When you’re new to magic, one spell can be the difference between getting what you want...and ruining the lives of everyone you love. Sixteen-year-old Madison has just embraced her magical powers. The trick now is learning how to control them. She and her boyfriend -and fellow witch- can’t even enjoy a simple kiss without getting shocked when their powers collide. Instead of mastering her new skills, though, Madison is stuck watching her kid brother and doing chores. But being a witch does have its benefits. With a simple spell, Madison instantly conjures the help she needs around the house. Or so she thinks. Her idea of “help” invites trouble of its own as a pair of dangerous yet enticing beings enter her life. When a classmate disappears soon afterwards, Madison discovers she's the next victim of a threat she's powerless to resist...and there’s nothing it won’t kill to make her surrender. Caught in the crossfire between two dashing but deadly creatures, Madison must figure out which one to trust and how to rid her world of the other—before one of them destroys her and everyone she cares about.

From the author of the bestselling novels Only the Innocent and The Back Road How far would you go to hold on to the people you love? When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst; this isn’t the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in to investigate this family again, but this time it’s Olivia who has disappeared. All the evidence suggests that she was here, in the family home, that morning. But her car is in the garage, and her purse is in her handbag – on the kitchen table. The police want to issue an appeal, but for some reason every single picture of this family has been removed from albums, from phones, from computers. And then they find the blood… Has the past caught up with Olivia? Sleep Tight – if you can. You never know who’s watching. Praise for Rachel Abbott: "Rachel Abbott will keep you guessing long into the night and just as soon as you’ve figured it out...think again!”- Suspense Magazine "It is one of those books that holds you hostage and is hard to put down until the end" – Confessions of a Reader “Abbott creates a tangled web of deception, secrets, and red herrings” – Booklist “Pure Genius: A Masterclass in the Perfect Thriller!!” – Love Books “One of THE Best Mystery Suspense Novels Read This Year!” - Amazon Vine Voice Advertising Read More

When CEO Renner Bastion walks into a room, everyone keeps their distance. Well, everyone but the sarcastic, tattooed, Boston-bred security guard whose presence has kept Renner in New Jersey longer than intended. As if the unwanted attraction isn’t unsettling enough, Renner finds out his protector isn’t as unavailable as originally thought. Milo Bautista just came out to his wealthy, ultra-confident boss, a man he secretly respects and admires…in more ways than he’ll admit. Worldly, experienced Renner would never look in his direction, let alone share some of that confidence he wears like a cloak, so Milo has set his sights on someone else to be his first. Until Renner offers him private lessons in seduction...

Close your eyes ... Just pray you don't wake up.A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are discovered, their bodies posed into a sickening recreation of fairytale princesses.Detective Ruby Preston is determined to hunt down a disturbed individual who is using the women to realise his dark fantasies. But when body parts are found at the home of her lover, Nathan Crosby, Ruby is torn between her job and her heart.Convinced that he is being framed, Ruby must catch the killer before Nathan becomes the number one suspect. But as more victims are found, it becomes harder to prove his innocence.As Ruby starts to close in on the twisted individual, can she stop him before he strikes again? And how well does she really know the man she loves?A terrifying, addictive serial killer thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, for readers of Angela Marsons, Peter James and Rachel Abbott.What readers are saying about the Ruby Preston...

Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair, take risks, and sort out what it is you really want. As Maria's world begins to revolve around the friendships she makes in dance class and the milongas (social dances) she attends regularly in New York City, we discover with her the fascinating culture, history, music, moves, and beauty of the Argentine tango. With each new dance step she learns—the embrace, the walk, the sweep, the exit—she is one step closer to returning to the world of the living. Eventually Maria travels to Buenos Aires, the birthplace of tango, and finds the confidence to try romance again.  As exhilarating as the dance itself, the story whirls us into the center of the ballroom dancing craze. And buoyed by the author's humor and passion, it imparts surprising insights about how to get on with life after you've lost in love. From Publishers WeeklyShaken by the discovery that her Cuban husband and salsa partner was having an affair, Finn, a contributor to New York magazine, embarked on learning to tango as a way of healing her broken heart, and chronicles her journey in this rather dry memoir. In tango, an Argentinean dance form originating in the immigrant neighborhoods and brothels of Buenos Aires, she tapped the sources of human sorrow and human happiness and found a safe comfort and intimacy among strangers. From standing on the sidelines watching the elegant, accomplished couples to plunging into her initial lessons at the South Street Seaport and attending her first milongas, or social dances, Finn had to connect with a series of constantly changing partners, some better at leading than others, and some more forgiving than others about her mistakes. Finn organizes her memoir around the tango steps—from la salida (the basic) through la caminata (the walk), la volcada (the fall), el boleo (the throw), all the way to el abrazo (the embrace)—which also cleverly mirror her stages of grief, from anger to acceptance. Sadly, her foray remains journalistically stilted rather than tango sensuous, and rarely warms the reader. Along with her personal story, involving a trip to a wedding in Buenos Aires and documenting there the gay tango scene, she nicely elucidates the evolution of the dance, through the music of Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardel, and traces briefly its flashpoints across the globe, from America to Finland and Turkey. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistWhen she discovered her husband was cheating on her, New York City resident Finn wallowed in anger and grief—but not for long. She realized the quickest path to recovery was to get off her duff and dance. Finn was drawn to the tango from the moment she happened upon a cluster of dashing dancers strutting their stuff in Central Park. She soon found her date book filled with nightly milongas (social dances). Tango, Finn learned, had its own vast vocabulary of steps, from El Gancho (The Hook) and El Boleo (The Throw) to El Abrazo (The Embrace). Its themes of sorrow and heartbreak meshed well with her melancholy frame of mind. The tango eventually gave Finn the confidence to begin dating again. Most of her matchups were a bust, but she didn’t give up hope. When she traveled to Buenos Aires (on a trip originally planned with her husband), she realized that her life wasn’t over; it had only begun. Finn has penned a lively debut memoir, brimming with tango history and lore. --Allison Block

HE’S A NAVY SEAL SUSPECTED OF MURDER. SHE’S HIS LOVER—AND THE CHIEF INVESTIGATOR.  Chris Waldron, an elite U.S. Navy SEAL, is used to getting out of tight spots. But all his years of training can’t prepare him for the crisis he now faces. When a mission to rescue a kidnapped ambassador and his wife goes tragically awry, an FBI hostage negotiator is killed and Chris finds himself at the center of the ensuing investigation. Leading the charge is Jamie Michaels, a blistering-hot special agent—and Chris’s onetime lover. Despite their reignited mutual attraction, Jamie is determined to keep things professional with Chris this time. But seeing him bruised and battered in that hospital bed has rekindled all those feelings she thought she’d left behind during their brief, passionate encounter in Africa. Now Jamie must keep at bay her craving for danger as she spearheads a search for the truth that just may blow Chris’s career to bits—and put them both in the crosshairs of an unseen enemy. From the Paperback edition.

When it's time to start thinking about college, which campuses do New York City's five hottest guys visit first? Ones where the girls outnumber the guys, obviously. On a road trip to Vassar, Jonathan is astonished to discover that his brother, Ted, is now considered cool. Mickey decides to turn the camera on himself-sans clothing. Arno finds his first love . . . he just needs to figure out where she went. Patch is searching for the perfect college for himself and Greta-but are they destined to be together? And David finds an amazing girlfriend . . . until she moves in with his family. If getting into college looks complicated from the outside, just imagine how wild it is for an Insider!

Stevie Lake has been grounded. No hanging out with the other members of the Saddle Club. Even worse, Stevie's not allowed to ride! It's going to take all her wackiness, and a little help in the scheming department from Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood, to talk her parents into letting her go to riding camp. Can Stevie clean up her act in time? If she doesn't, summer is going to be a complete bust!

I've lived the fairytale.And the evil queen won.My princess died...and it was my fault.Football was just something I enjoyed, until it became the thing that saved my life.Playing is like breathing, and I can't live without air.Landyn was right: I'm NFL-caliber. I've got ten, maybe fifteen years and then I'll retire. Life is good.Until her.I thought my heart was gone. Flamed into petrified ash with Emily's last breath. Now a green-eyed monster with hair like fire has kindled something inside me.But if she discovers the secret I hold, I could lose the life I've built with football. I've already died once; I don't think I'll survive it again.Is there a fairytale where the prince finds love again? I don't think so...The newest NFL team is full of the hottest and most talented collegiate players of the 2019 graduating class. The women they meet and the lessons they learn will determine if they deserve to be NFL champions. Each novel ends in a happily ever after, but their stories continue through the season. Will the Rhinos be the next Cinderella team and reach the Super Bowl?Get a Rookie today!The Rookies SeriesThe Quarterback (Available for Pre-Order!)The Tight End (Available for Pre-Order!)The Running Back (Available for Pre-Order!)The Kicker (Coming September 2018)The Wide Receiver (Coming October 2018)The Linebacker (Coming November 2018)The Tackle (Coming December 2018)The Coach (Coming January 2019)The Owner (Coming Fall 2018)